If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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She was the captain of her soul
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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